Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

[WA: I have beaten this drum many times and it is both frightening and vindicating to hear the beat from this source.]

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America's biggest threat comes from within

August 19, 2007

Paul Craig Roberts is a Republican who served as undersecretary of the treasury under Ronald Reagan and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, so he's no kook or Commie. He warns, "Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the United States could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran."

Roberts warns us that Bush has put into place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of executive orders that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency.

Ask yourself: Would a government that has lied us into Iraq and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran shrink from staging terrorist attacks in order to remove opposition to its agenda? Bush already ignores public opinion and laws he doesn't like. His secret spying network is in place.

He has politicized all levels of government, appointing cronies who are loyal to him rather than competent officials. Has he been setting the groundwork for dictatorship?

Adolf Hitler, who never achieved majority support in a German election, used the Reichstag fire to fan hysteria and push through the Enabling Act, which >u>made him dictator. Determined tyrants never require majority support in order to overthrow democratic constitutions. They declare "national emergencies." A series of staged or permitted terrorist attacks would accomplish that.

On a recent radio show, Roberts said, "Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism."

Is Roberts - Republican, Reagan appointee, conservative newspaper editor - far out when he warns, "The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown"? One certainly hopes so. [WA: But terrified he isn't.]

- William Stosine,
Iowa City.

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[WA: THIS is scary!!]

ICH: "We are the ruling race of the world" 08/19/07 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"We are the ruling race of the world... We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world... He has marked us as his chosen people... He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples." : Sen. Alfred Beveridge = "I firmly believe that when any territory outside the present territorial limits of the United States becomes necessary for our defense or essential for our commercial development, we ought to lose no time in acquiring it." : Sen. Orville Platt of Connecticut 1894. = "Between 1898 and 1934, the Marines invaded Cuba 4 times, Nicaragua 5 times, Honduras 7 times, the Dominican Republic 4 times, Haiti twice, Guatemala once, Panama twice, Mexico 3 times and Columbia 4 times," Washington has intervened militarily in foreign countries more than 200 times." [WA: and many, many more times than that in clandestine operations]. COMMENTS: The Future Was Yesterday said... What was once just a bitter joke, now hovers over all of us like a storm cloud. There will be no 08 elections. It used to be, you had to own a tinfoil hat to say that. Now all you need is to live in America. Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:45:00 PM WA: When I first began seeing articles mentioning such things, my initial response was a scoffing, "Wingnut!" As I researched and learned more about the larger picture, I began to fear it was not paranoiac , screwball conspiracy theorists. Learning even more, I became convinced many scenarios were not only possible but quite probable. I do not fear for myself as I am old and my time is finished. I fear for our young ones and for the future we are leaving for them.